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Little Island, the beautiful 2.4-acre elevated park that sits above the Hudson River on Manhattan’s west side, just announced the lineup of star-studded performances happening throughout the summer season—and the curation does not disappoint.
This year, the programming will include nine commissioned world premieres of live performances that will kick of on June 1 and close out on September 22, spanning the realms of music, dance, theater, opera, comedy, jazz, pop and funk.
Just as exciting is the debut of The Glade, a brand new cocktail lounge opening on the island that will be offering a selection of beers, wines, cocktails and mocktails to be enjoyed anywhere throughout the park. The bar will also be the site of a few shows, including a cabaret act by Justin Vivian Bond and a live oyster shucking demonstration by Robert LaValva.
The season kicks off with a show produced by the legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp, featuring original music by T Bone Burnett and David Mansfield. The new full-length piece, “How Long Blues,” previews on June 1, 2 and 5 and will then run from June 6 to 23.
“Robeson,” a work created and performed by bass baritone Davóne Tines and co-created and directed by Zack Winokur, will center on the life story of musician Paul Robeson and will run from June 27 through the 29.
The summer program will conclude on September 22 with “The Marriage of Figaro,” an original play in which outré opera icon Anthony Roth Costanzo will sing every leading role.
All of the scheduled performances will take place at The Amph, the park’s 200-seat venue.
Price-wise, all tickets run $25, but there will be plenty of smaller performances throughout the season that will be free to the public.
“We are planning, season by season, to offer the people of New York City a nightly party with great art, great food and drinks, great sunsets, and great views,” said Zack Winokur, Little Island’s Producing Artistic Director, in a statement. “By opening with a new dance, closing with a reimagined opera, and filling the intervening weeks with works of all different disciplines and scales, we are offering audiences an astonishingly broad array of work in a relatively condensed amount of time.”
You can learn more about Little Island’s full summer programming and get advance tickets to the bigger performances on their website.
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Let’s be honest: QC NY, the luxury Italian spa that opened on Governors Island a couple of years ago and entirely revamped the previously underused neighborhood, is pretty awesome as it is—but things are about to get even better.
QC NY just announced that it is working on a major expansion set to debut this July. The 15,000-square-foot, multimillion dollar addition will bring along with it new sensory saunas, waterfalls, a salt room, a lavender room, an ice room and a relaxation room with waterbeds, according to an official press release.
There’s more: Casa QC is a new 5,000-square-foot building that will house a 142-seat bistro serving both soft and alcoholic drinks plus Italian fare “from artisanal gelato to aperitivo trays with delicacies liked aged pecorino and taralli crackers,” according to the release.
Rendering: Courtesy of QC New York
If you’re a fan of the spa’s currently operating eatery, Flora Café, worry not: the restaurant will stay in place as well.
The remarkable destination will expand once more in the spring of 2025, when a third building will be completed, bringing QC NY’s footprint to a staggering 100,000 square feet.
Since first opening back in 2022, QC NY has already undergone a revamp of sorts: last summer, two outdoor infinity pools debuted on site, each one featuring proprietary underwater hydro seats and loungers that massage, relax and increase lymphatic circulation.
Rendering: Courtesy of QC New York
In addition to the slew of new offerings, spa guests will continue to be able to access a vast variety of indoor amenities, including steam baths, relaxation rooms, themed saunas, foot baths, Vichy showers and much more—all the while taking in views of the New York Harbor.
A ferry ride away from Manhattan, QC NY has truly transformed the stretch of land that it calls home—expanding the scope of interest of both New Yorkers and tourists while in New York. We’re happy to hear that the people responsible for said changes continue to work towards additional offerings.
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